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stockyard

noun as in slaughterhouse

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RSF fighters managed to capture a cattle market, a prison and a military base while broadcasting videos of themselves walking around empty stockyards.

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Because they often are sold online at auction houses or to stockyards, it can be almost impossible to determine where the beef eventually ends up.

Old stockyards and abandoned red-brick storehouses are gradually filling with hipster bars and coffee shops, galleries and artisanal-everything shops.

The stockyards are gone, but the restaurant stayed.

Farm Sanctuary began not as a home for rescued animals but with a group of young activists working to expose animal cruelty at farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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